Hana P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Hana P, who was born in 1927, one of eight children in an orthodox family. She recounts living in Będzin, Poland; attending a Jewish school; antisemitism immediately before the war; German invasion; soldiers beating her father and cutting off his beard; her family's deportation; her deportation to Grünberg; slave labor in a textile factory; a death march to Neusalz; becoming depressed; several prisoners committing suicide; a death march to Ravensbrück, then Flossenbürg one month later; her friend sharing extra bread; train transfer to Auschwitz, then Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; hospitalization in Sweden; illegal emigration by ship to Palestine; incarceration in Cyprus; marriage; her husband's military draft; reunion with two sisters; emigrating to Australia to join her husband's brother; returning to Israel in the 1970s; and her husband's recent death. Ms. P. discusses fasting on Yom Kippur and praying in camps; nightmares resulting from her experiences; continuing to believe in God; and sharing her experiences with her children and grandchildren.
Extent and Medium
6 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- P., Hana, -- 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Neusalz (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Faith.
- Mutual aid.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Suicide.
- Nightmares.
Places
- Sweden.
- Będzin (Poland)
- Cyprus.
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Grünberg (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Australia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat